@paco @BenAveling it is just a stupid electronic device
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@paco Groan, yes. Had someone just the other day asking about full disk encryption just after his wordpress had been hacked.
No, you need to fix your website. FDE might satisfy your auditor or other paper tiger box ticking exercise (ta-*dah*, security) but it won’t stop your wordpress being hacked again.
Which it was, a few days later.
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@paco what about data-at-rest encrypted on your disk while malware is exfilling all data, the encrypted stuff is safe. imagine all your mails (seperately) encrypted, malware actor can only use the ones that are decrypted while present. limits damages.
@stf That is all true. It’s just totally unrelated to the sense in which OpenAI is using “encryption at rest.” It’s also nothing like what a cloud provider means when they say “encryption at rest.”
Can a person take individual actions to protect themselves? Yes. That isn’t the topic.
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@paco This is often essential for corporates to meet defined security standards.
Yes, it's far more probable that the application will be attacked than the data container, but there you go.
I also seem to remember that certain hacks *have* stolen the entire (virtual) container, so it is a nice to have.
@syllopsium i didn’t say there was no reason to do it. I just said it wasn’t protecting the data. Compliance is the biggest driver. And this is a great example where compliance makes a bunch of people do a bunch of stuff that has limited value in reality.
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@stf That is all true. It’s just totally unrelated to the sense in which OpenAI is using “encryption at rest.” It’s also nothing like what a cloud provider means when they say “encryption at rest.”
Can a person take individual actions to protect themselves? Yes. That isn’t the topic.
@paco i misunderstood i thought you criticize data-at-rest encryption in general, sounded to me like openai was only the trigger for that.
and the cloud storage thing also was confusing, in that context d-a-r-e also makes sense it all depends who is holding the only copies to the keys.
please excuse my confusion and my blatant off-topicness
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@paco i misunderstood i thought you criticize data-at-rest encryption in general, sounded to me like openai was only the trigger for that.
and the cloud storage thing also was confusing, in that context d-a-r-e also makes sense it all depends who is holding the only copies to the keys.
please excuse my confusion and my blatant off-topicness
@stf I think what i did badly was compare it to encrypting a laptop hard drive. THAT has a ton of value because laptops are easily stolen. But I can see how it sounds like I didn’t think any of it was worthwhile.
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My oldest website (1995) got hacked because a company did a shitty thing...but that's not the important bit...
The important bit is that I started rebuilding. Using old, old, older than marquee old html. For giggles, to see if I could remember it.
My site was being pounded thousands of times an hour by AI bots who think my site is the other company.
I now have a single page, explaining why I was hacked, with an email address so the people who stole my name can just buy the site because I can't ever use it again, but it will be a cold day in hell before I just relinquish it.
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My oldest website (1995) got hacked because a company did a shitty thing...but that's not the important bit...
The important bit is that I started rebuilding. Using old, old, older than marquee old html. For giggles, to see if I could remember it.
My site was being pounded thousands of times an hour by AI bots who think my site is the other company.
I now have a single page, explaining why I was hacked, with an email address so the people who stole my name can just buy the site because I can't ever use it again, but it will be a cold day in hell before I just relinquish it.
@MissConstrue Grrrr. That sucks. I run a slightly popular, 20-year-old web forum. I ended up paying the $9.50/month to bunny.net to add their anti-bot protections. You can totally see in the graph when I turned that on.
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@moira I have a really good car for this and I wish I could find someone that could do the work. I'm handy around the house and with computers, but I would never drive a car where I had a hand in fitting the engine.
@paco @moira Your nearest major city probably has a business or two that does this, the downsides when I last looked were "Hella expensive" and "you're getting Tesla parts in your car"
I would sooner trust James-Dean-cursed-death-porsche parts in mine. I should recheck, maybe there's more selection in motor and batteries these days... -
Then I might have been wrong and there were more leaks. They definitely had one last year, where they hosted pictures of peoples' passports in Zendesk (which is all kinds of insane).
If they used a "proper" age verification service and they leaked, that's an entire new can of worms. (Though I still think Discord in particular having age verification is not a bad thing.)The same channel did another video about Discord age verification.
Basically:
1) use an LLM-based system to guess your age
2) use a commercial age verification service using ID
3) send a support request via Zendesk, often attaching IDs and/or selfies (even though that should not be done via Zendesk)
Often people use them in that order due to simplicity and speed.
Only the third was "hacked" (some dude bought the password to Zendesk off an employee). Zendesk should obviously not be used for age verification or any other sensitive information.
So, age verification is in most cases bad and is obviously just a power grab when used like the UK system or the on-again-off-again EU system, but the Discord leak is not an example of why it is bad.
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Great minds think alike. I just posted a Cardinal pic. https://social.lol/@chrisod/115956121921024160 -
@paco i would consider shaving to be a private thing you do at home, in your bathroom...
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@paco nope. He's in England. NHS has this covered.
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@paco nope. He's in England. NHS has this covered.
@cocaine_owlbear Fair enough. The hospital won't track you down for money. But the damn hospital car park will.
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@paco another kind of space mutant on this movie
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Or as we say round here: no use throwing good money after bad!
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@paco I think, today in 2026, if the police had to go round in a car with a speaker on top telling everyone to 'remain calm' some very terrible thing must have happened
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